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War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry by Charles Cantalupo, Mohammed Osman Kajerai, Mussa Mohammed Adem, Ribka Sibhatu, Angessom Isaak, Reesom Haile; & Ghirmai Yohannes is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry focuses on Eritrean written poetry from roughly the last three decades of the twentieth century. The poems appear in the anthology Who Needs a Story? Contemporary Eritrean Poetry in Tigrinya, Tigre and Arabic from which a selection is offered here in their original scripts of Ge'ez or Arabic, and in English translation. Who Needs a Story? is the first anthology of contemporary poetry from Eritrea ever published, and War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry is the first book on the subject. Therefore, the groundbreaking effort of the former warrants a discussion of its means of cultural production. All of the poets in Who Needs a Story? participated in the Eritrean struggle for independence (1961-91) as freedom fighters and/or as supporters in the Eritrean diaspora. Thus, contemporary Eritrean poetry divides itself between experiences of war and peace, although one can contain the other as well. War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry also includes an extended analysis of one of Eritrea's most famous contemporary poets Reesom Haile, as an example of the kind of extended analysis that many of the poets of Who Needs a Story? sho

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Author

Charles Cantalupo, Mohammed Osman Kajerai, Mussa Mohammed Adem, Ribka Sibhatu, Angessom Isaak, Reesom Haile; & Ghirmai Yohannes

Publisher

Mkuki na Nyota Publishers

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9789987080533

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, History